cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1249875

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https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

Please leave feedback either here or on GitHub.

Note this is very much a work in progress still and this is very barebones. I plan to continue work and submit nightly builds on TestFlight, so be on the lookout for the new releases.

Happy scrolling!

  • Lloir@lemmy.0x3d.uk
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    This looks amazing!!

    Are you able to convert into Android too??

    nvm ignore my comment, i saw the option to compile for Android!

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      I’m not the dev but I think that’s the intention based on the readme on GitHub.

      It’s written in Expo/React Native which means it’ll be easier to support both iOS and Android.

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        Yup. I took it for a spin on a simulator and things are about 90% functional out of the box. There’s some weird scaling issues with the text, but I believe that to be the patchwork way I’m rendering the markdown right now. Once I finish the markdown parser it should be the same across both platforms.

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            As far as I know kbin doesn’t have API access enabled at the moment. They’re still trying to finalise how they do it. This means that apps can’t communicate with it just yet.

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        1 year ago

        Not him, but I like how stable it is compared to Mlem. But UX wise I still like Mlem better for now. But good to see two apps already like this, both really good so far.

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        1 year ago

        Faster, smoother, clearly caches more aggressively so much less halting when scrolling, smaller fonts so more compact interface.

        Both are so early in development though it’s basically irrelevant. Tomorrow Mlem could push a new build that includes their new interface that I’ve seen in the GitHub PRs and I’ll be back to that one. For now it’s just like Mastodon was, using all of the apps and seeing which one ends up fleshing out into a fully functional experience.

      • 14four@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        For me it’s the iOS 15 support, Mlem has targeted iOS 16 which doesn’t work on my 6s.

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        1 year ago

        What others have said plus gestures. One thing for now. Currently writing from the app and for a second i thought it bugged out when I pressed to reply. Turns out the keyboard doesn’t pop up automatically and there is no placeholder.

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    Always great to have more options! But this seems very similar to Mlem in terms of goals (Apollo like). Why not combine efforts?

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      Underlying technology is completely different. One is Swift, one is React. It talks about this on the GitHub.

      This is one of those cases where two is better than one, because not everyone can contribute to a Swift app, and multiple projects isn’t splitting effort, it’s bringing on people who wouldn’t otherwise be involved at all.

      Plus, probably worth having a few going just because there is so much activity now. Mlem is moving a little slower than I had hoped so while I’d prefer a native Swift iOS app, this one is already a little more functional and it’s the first release.

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        Those are some of the main reasons. Also, the fact that it can be easily released as an Android build as well is nice, especially for users who would want a more Apollo-like feel on android devices. I have not personally tested Jeroba, but from screenshots I have seen (while it does look great!) it doesn’t have the same look as some of the old Reddit apps.

        Bottom line is this is a huge preference thing. I don’t want to take anything at all away from Mlem. If you know Swift and think you can contribute to that project then by all means you should! Looks like a great project. Glad that there’s so many people working on things for Lemmy already!

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        Great! Thanks for clarifying. Definitely; more is better. Just based on the limited information available it wasn’t clear to me how this one was different.

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      Because some of us saps don’t have a phone capable of iOS 16+ which is what Mlem is targeting. Memmy runs great.

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    This looks great! Does it work with kbin.social accounts as well?

    Edit: never mind, I should have read all the comments first. Looking forward to seeing how this app progresses!

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    Thanks for the cross post! Please feel free to let me know if you guys run into any issues!

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      I was having such a good experience with Memmy I thought others should know about it too. The daily improvements have been amazing, keep up the great work!

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    Love it so far! Like some others here, I’d also love to see kbin integration if that’s possible. Thanks for putting this together!

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    Using it now to post this comment. I’m really liking it, it’s very smooth. Wish there was compact view but I’m sure its coming soon. I might switch over from mlem

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    @[email protected] This looks like a fantastic start! As an Apollo user it’s a very familiar experience.

    At the very least I’ll try to test and submit bug reports. If I can find the time I’ll try to do some development too. (I could do with a React side-project…)

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    I just installed and loaded it up. This looks like a fantastic start. I hope I can provide feedback as I use it more!

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    It looks great! I’m definitely taking it for a spin and will create an issue on GH if I find any.

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    Very cool. Posting from it now. Don’t like how the reply form takes up the whole screen. But given it’s v0.01 I’ll take these things in stride

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      While it does take up the whole view, I intend to have a few other buttons and things on screen. The comment that you’re replying to will be visible under the comment section, and there will be some buttons to easily add markdown to the comment.

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    Showing a lot of potential, already like what I see! Can’t login with kbin currently so just hoping that will change, otherwise I’d be commenting from there now :D

    Swipe options nailed the bare-bones already and the right options in the right spots! I’d love to have share as the last option on swipe left. Also needs vibration when ‘unselecting’ (?) a swipe option.

    Performance is already great, smooth and no crash yet other than when trying to login with kbin. Looking forward to seeing this grow!

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      FYI, I don’t think kbin has enabled API access yet which is why apps won’t work with it

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        I just took a look at that, saw a lot of requests in TF feedback about it. I ran across something on GitHub. I’ll see how similar the two are and what could be done to offer a full integration in the same app. Not sure about this one yet.

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      Fixed the KBin crash.

      Sharing I was thinking about having a little “…” at the top of the comment to offer an action sheet with sharing. But I like the swipe idea too. And of course the post share sheet will be there too.

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          Although it should have been fixed to not crash (release was only just pushed though), it does not currently support KBin. I will look into implementing the API and support this. Might be a bit, since it will require actually writing an API wrapper (from what I have seen anyway), but that isn’t too much work. I’ll put it on the list.